From a7b9c8aefd52fdae8320b419e684415998b7c43a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Reimar=20D=C3=B6ffinger?= <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:52:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Attempt to document the "enable pic" hackery for OpenBSD.

Originally committed as revision 20491 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
---
 configure | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index eb993d3904..a1da72faa2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1916,6 +1916,10 @@ case $target_os in
         ;;
     openbsd)
         enable malloc_aligned
+        # on OpenBSD 4.5. the compiler does not use PIC unless explicitly using
+        # -fPIC. FFmpeg builds fine without PIC, however the generated executable
+        # will not do anything (simply quits with exit-code 1, no crash, no output).
+        # Thus explicitly enable PIC here.
         enable pic
         SHFLAGS='-shared'
         oss_indev_extralibs="-lossaudio"